Advice needed on wiping XP

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

Well you can get a flavour of what it will do by downloading Knoppix and
running everything from CD

People can run a whole OS like this without using the hard drive at all
though I am assured you can also install it onto the HDD (the procedure is
unbelievably difficult to follow; though that may just mean that I never
managed it)

Let us know how you get on: it was almost always a successful and
instructive and useful for me.

(Linux users say that this is only one of many distros of their OS)

"poorstudent" <poorstudent@nospamplease.org> wrote in message
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> I have decided that it will be cheaper and easier to buy a laptop with
> XP on it and wipe the drive and install linux and some other os. How to
> best do this? a) backup whatever I can on CDs b) format c c) buy linux-I
> want full documentation and complete OS w/drivers d) install linux dual
> boot I guess this is the general idea, but can anyone advise tips and
> pitfalls to make it easiest or should I not even try?